Publications by authors named "Fung-Kum Helen Chiu"
Article Synopsis
- The study investigates the coprescription of mood stabilizers (MSs) with antipsychotics in patients with schizophrenia across 14 Asian countries, finding that 13.6% of patients received MSs, often at high doses.
- Factors associated with MS use included demographic variables like younger age and female sex, as well as clinical aspects like longer illness duration and more severe symptoms.
- Results suggest that patients on high doses of MSs had a less favorable illness trajectory and were more challenging to treat, indicating that adjunctive MS treatment may reflect greater severity of illness.
Late-onset Diogenes syndrome in Chinese - an elderly case series in Hong Kong.
Neuropsychiatr Dis Treat
May 2011
We review a consecutive case series of elders presenting to a regional psychogeriatric service in Hong Kong in 1996-2001. Eighteen elders (aged 65 and over) fulfilled the classical symptoms of Diogenes syndrome (extreme squalor, neglected physical state, unhygienic condition & social isolation with or without hoarding). A diverse clinical and socio-demographic profile was observed.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: This study is designed to pilot test the feasibility and correlational properties of the adapted Chinese version of Executive Interview (C-EXIT25) to other cognitive measures in a psychogeriatric population in Hong Kong Chinese.
Method: Eighty-five community dwelling elders from different levels of residential care facilities were assessed with C-EXIT25, Cantonese version of Mini-Mental State Examination (C-MMSE), Chinese version of Mattis Dementia Rating Scale (CDRS) and Nelson's Modified Card Sorting Test (MCST).
Results: The C-EXIT25 has high internal consistency (Cronbach's alpha = 0.